Curious about what is going on with plugins in the WordPress Plugin Directory? Through our collection of data for own search engine, we have a lot of data on the plugins in the directory. We have some key stats below. Looking for something additional? Get in touch. (The data is up to 45 days out of date for plugins that haven’t been recently updated.)
Plugins Added to Directory in 2025
- There are 2,523 plugins added in 2025 in the directory.
- 2,046 of those have fewer than 10 installs (81.1% of the total).
- 98 of those have 100 or more installs (3.9% of the total).
- 1,845 are marked as tested with WordPress 6.8 (73.1% of the total).
Plugins Added to Directory in 2024
- There are 3,548 plugins added in 2024 in the directory.
- 1,664 of those have fewer than 10 installs (46.9% of the total).
- 614 of those have 100 or more installs (17.3% of the total).
- 1,110 are marked as tested with WordPress 6.8 (31.3% of the total).
Plugins Added to Directory in 2023
- There are 2,028 plugins added in 2023 in the directory.
- 686 of those have fewer than 10 installs (33.8% of the total).
- 576 of those have 100 or more installs (28.4% of the total).
- 513 are marked as tested with WordPress 6.8 (25.3% of the total).
Install Count of All Plugins in Directory
- 69 have a million or more installs (0.1% of the total).
- 491 have 100,000 or more installs (0.8% of the total).
- 2,393 have 10,000 or more installs (4% of the total).
- 7,551 have 1,000 or more installs (12.7% of the total).
- 17,532 have more than 100 installs (29.4% of the total).
- 14,527 have fewer than 10 installs (24.4% of the total).
Marked as Tested With WordPress Version
- 9,929 plugins have been marked as tested with the latest version of WordPress, 6.8 (16.7% of the total). Version 6.8 was released on April 15.
- 5,013 plugins have been marked as tested with version 6.7 (8.4% of the total).
- 2,587 plugins have been marked as tested with version 6.6 (4.3% of the total).
- 34,063 plugins have been marked as tested with a version below 6.0 (57.1% of the total).
- 59 plugins with a million or more installs have been marked as tested with the latest version of WordPress, 6.8 (85.5% of the total).
- 7 plugins with a million or more installs been marked as tested with version 6.7 (10.1% of the total).
- 1 plugins with a million or more installs have been marked as tested with version 6.6 (1.4% of the total).
- 5 plugins from WordPress.org have been marked as tested with the latest version of WordPress, 6.8 (45.5% of the total).
Last Updated
- 14,049 plugins have been updated in 2025 (23.6% of the total).
- 6,686 plugins were last updated in 2024 (11.2% of the total).
- 3,333 plugins were last updated in 2023 (5.6% of the total).